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Yanofsky is interested in theoretical computer science. His main interest is category theory and the many applications it has in computer science, mathematics and physics. He is also interested in quantum computing.

Books and Publications

"Finding Structure in Science and Mathematics"
A fourth place winner in the FQXi 2017 essay contest.
A version of this paper appeared as
"Chaos Makes The Multiverse Unnecessary" Nautilus. June 22, 2017.
http://nautil.us/issue/49/the-absurd/chaos-makes-the-multiverse-unnecessary
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2018

Monoidal Categories: A Unifying Concept in Mathematics, Physics, and Computers. A new book project. It should be 500 pages. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2018

Submitted a book for publication "Theoretical Computer Science for the Working Category Theorist". (Books and Publications: Book) 2018

"Computability and Complexity of Categorical Structures."
Submitted to a journal.
(Books and Publications: Other Article) 2016

"Galois Theory of Algorithms" published in
Rohit Parikh on Logic, Language and Society edited by
by Can Başkent, Lawrence S. Moss and Ramaswamy Ramanujam. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2016

"Paradoxes, Contradictions, and the Limits of Science" in May-June 2016 American Scientist. In The Best Writing on Mathematics 2017, edited by Mircea Pitici, (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2016

"The Roll of Symmetry in Mathematics"
Joint work with Mark Zelcer. 24 pages
http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07803
in Foundations of Science.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2016

"Why Mathematics Works So Well"
A fourth place winner in the FQXi 2015 essay contest ?Trick or Truth:
the Mysterious Connection Between Physics and Mathematics?
http://fqxi.org/community/essay/winners/2015.1#Yanofsky
Also published in Trick or Truth?: The Mysterious Connection Between
Physics and Mathematics, Springer 2016 Edited by
Anthony Aguirre, Brendan Foster , and Zeeya Merali.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2016

PROSE award, given by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers for best popular science and popular mathematics book, for The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Math, and Logic Cannot Tell Us.(Awards and Honors) 2013